Tanya Acker Biography
Tanya Acker is an American television figure best known as a television court judge on CBS Television Distribution’s syndicated court show HOT BENCH. She is also a frequent television commentator and a qualified and experienced civil litigator. Acker also hosts her own podcast “Tanya Acker Show” podcast.
How old is Tanya Acker? – Age
The television court judge is 51 years old as of March 13, 2020. She was born in 1970, in Los Angeles in the United States.
Tanya Acker Family
She was born to African-American parents Bill and her mother Aretha Acker. Her parents were post office workers. Acker loves her parents she also shares her parent’s photos on social media.
Tanya Acker Education
Tanya attended Yale Law school. During her time at the institution, She represented low-income women family law cases and served as a teaching assistant in Constitutional Law and civil procedure courses. After graduating, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Dorothy Wright Nelson on the Ninth U.S. circuit court of Appeals.
In 1992, She received her B.A. degree at Howard University. She graduated Summa cum laude and was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was awarded a Luard scholarship for study at St. Anne’s college at Oxford University. At St. Anne’s she served as the co-editor-in-chief of the Oxford University women’s magazine.
Tanya Acker Marriage – Husband
Acker is married. She is married and her weeding was officiated by Judge Dorothy Nelson. However, the identity of her husband remains a private to the social media.
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The ‘HOT BENCH’ judge has been a featured as a commentator on various top television shows in the United States of America. She has made appearances on Entertainment Tonight, Wendy Williams, The Talk, Good Morning America, The O’Reilly Factor, Larry King Live, CNN Reports, Anderson cooper 360, Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell, Extra, Your World with Neil Cavuto, among others.
Acker being an experienced litigator, She has represented a wide array of clients. Her legal work has spanned a broad variety of matters. She has tackled civil litigation involving public and private entities, to various constitutional cases. She has also been involved in providing constitutional cases, and also to the provision of business counselling and advice. Acker is also an active Philanthropist and has also been involved in civil and business organizations. She is a member of various organizations boards. These organizations include; the Beverly Hills West chapter of The Links, Incorporated, public counsel, the western Regional, and Western Los Angeles County Council Boards, Pacwest Bancorp, among others.
Acker is one of the three judges on Hot Bench alongside Judge Patricia Dimango and Judge Michael Corriero. Hot Bench is a court show created by judge Judy Sheindlin and executive produced by David Theodosopoulos.
On September 9, 2019, the show returned for its sixth season. During the show’s 2018-2019 run, it was the #3 first-run program in daytime television. The show delivered 3.1 million daily viewers.
Tanya Acker Net Worth
Tanya has estimated net worth of $218 thousand dollars as of year 2020.